Re: Maurer family - Agnetheln, Transylvania
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In reply to:
Maurer family - Agnetheln, Transylvania
7/17/98
You ask tough questions. I venture that the Germans who emigrated to Romania may have come from the same areas as those who emigrated to Russia, or similar areas, in the 1700s. About the same time my Maurers were coming to Pennsylvania in 1765, other Germans from what is now SW Germany (Palatinate, etc.) were heading east to Galizien (Poland, I think), Romania, Russia, etc.
Write to the Institut fuer Pfaelzische Geschichte und Volkskunde, Benzinoring 6, Kaiserslautern, Germany, and send them some money or postal coupons *$3 or $5 or so, and ask them to check their card file for emigrants to that town or area in Rumania. They keep track of as many emigrants from the Palatinate, including the 1700s, as they can. This card file, or parts of it, is also in America..(Berks Co. Genealogical Society? Palatines to America, or?) since last year.
Also, there are several books on German genealogy which will help you with your problem -- hope you have a good library nearby.
Michael S. Mowrer
Heidelberg, Germany
I'm an AMerican living in Germany, and have seen programs on Germans who lived in Russia, etc. Many of them have returned to Germany to live in the past few years. The villages where they lived are sad, in some cases, as only the old people remain.